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Only four words hold B second and L third, and nearly all of them are built on one short stem.
Three of the four run ABLE and then one more letter, giving ABLER, ABLES and ABLET. ABLOW takes O in the fourth box instead.
Four letters appear in the last box across four words, one apiece. Nothing repeats there, so the final letter alone separates every entry.
ABLE is four letters, so it falls outside a five letter list. What you get instead are the longer forms built on it, which is why the group stays so tight.
Four of the four open with A. Confirming the B and the L effectively hands you the first letter as well.
Both are ordinary. ABLES is the rarer verb form, so ABLER is usually the safer guess.
A small freshwater fish, also called a bleak. It is the least familiar of these four.
Blowing, or in bloom, used in older poetry. It takes O in the fourth box where the others take E.